Chapter 14: Fish scales?

Chapter 14: Fish scales?

With a "click", the flashlight in Hu Lai's hand fell to the ground, and Gululu rolled several times before stopping.

The faint light just shone on his legs, and the bright red flesh was particularly clear in the light.

After being stunned for a while, Hu Lai shouted "Ah" and hid behind Qin Yi, shouting, "Ghost! There's a ghost!"

Qin Yi stood motionless, a little sweat soaked in the palm of his hand holding the handle of the knife, staring at the man covered in blood without blinking.

He has only one face that is still intact. Except for the cloth wrapped around his waist, the rest of the exposed parts are all red flesh and blood, and the skin that is rarely left is also dyed red by blood.

Such... would it still be a living person?

Hu Lai yelled for Qin Yi to close the door, and Yin Ze outside the door smiled bitterly and said, "I'm really not a ghost, I don't know why I'm still alive now, and even though I've become like this, I don't feel it at all. It hurts, otherwise I would have the courage to knock my body against the door."

From such a mouth with almost only flesh and blood, the words spoken are very normal.

He even raised his hands high and said, "If you are worried, I can keep raising my hands and promise not to attack you."

Hu Lai carefully walked out from behind Qin Yi, bent down to pick up the flashlight, walked towards him step by step, slowly stretched out a finger, and pressed it on his cheek.

Immediately, he exhaled: "There is temperature, not a ghost!"

Qin Yi said: "Then, let's talk about it first."

She was a little curious, how did a person survive when he became like this? And can it be so casual?

Yin Ze responded and walked towards the room.

Hu Lai and Qin Yi didn't move, standing at the door left and right, watching him enter the room.

The flashlight in Hu Lai's hand kept moving with him. When Yin Ze walked in front of them and walked forward, the light of the flashlight shone on his back.

The sparkling reflection appeared in the sight of the two without warning!

Almost at the same time, Qin Yi covered his mouth in shock—

Behind Yin Ze, there are many scales the size of thumbs!

Fish scales, it turned out to be fish scales!

On his back, there were pieces in the east and west, the size of a palm, and they were not connected into a large piece, so the flesh and blood were still clearly visible except for these fish scales.

Under the light of the flashlight, the fish scales reflected the bright and dark luster as Yin Ze walked.

Qin Yi was so shocked that he was speechless, and Hu Lai was even more stunned.

It wasn't until Yin Ze walked to the sofa that he stopped, turned around and said to the two of them, "I'll go find some cloth to cushion and then sit."

Qin Yi nodded blankly and pointed to the bedroom on the left.

Yin Ze walked over there.

As soon as he entered the bedroom door, Hu Lai asked in a low voice, "What the **** is this?"

Qin Yi shook his head, how did she know this?

Maybe it was infected and mutated like those fish?

But... did it actually turn into a fish from a human?

The two stood dumbfounded until Yin Ze took two clothes and came out, they were still standing there.

Yin Ze was taken aback and asked, "Why are you still standing?"

Hu Lai couldn't hold back and asked directly, "What are those things growing on your back?"

"What?" Yin Ze was stunned for a while, reached out to touch his back, and said, "What can I do, is there something dirty..."

Before he could finish his words, his fingers had already touched those hard scales.

Qin Yi and Hu Lai saw his expression quickly change from dazed to shocked.

Even he doesn't know it? Don't you feel it?

"What, what is this?!" Yin Ze shouted in panic, "How can I have such a thing on me!"

As he shouted, he pulled a piece of scale vigorously. When the scale was pulled by him, he screamed "Ah", as if the pain was unbearable.

He didn't have a few pieces of intact skin all over his body, but he never felt pain, but now he just plucked off a scale, and the pain was so painful that he could hardly stand still!

Yin Ze panicked, his body began to tremble, and he stared at the **** scales in his palm in disbelief.

Qin Yi came back to his senses and hurriedly ran over to check his back, only to see the place where the scales were pulled off by him, and the flesh and blood were turned upside down. Obviously, the scales did grow on his skin.

"Am I going to die? Am I going to die?!" Yin Ze yelled, turned around and grabbed Qin Yi's wrist, and said in a panic, "I escaped from the belly of a fish, so I survived the danger. , I can't die, impossible!"

Qin Yi didn't break free from him, looked down at the blood stained on his wrist, and said in a deep voice, "Don't worry, calm down and tell us what happened."

Her tone sounded calm, which made Yin Ze calm down slowly.

Qin Yi helped him sit on the sofa, he took a deep breath, suppressed the trembling, and said slowly: "At that time, Wu Yu- just wanted to kill me, he stabbed me, and after I jumped into the water, Maybe it was because the smell of blood was too heavy, and it attracted a very large fish! That fish...must be the size of a whale, it swallowed me whole in one bite, and my resistance was just a tickling for it."

"But I didn't die immediately after I got into the stomach. I didn't want to die, so I struggled to pull out the knife in my stomach, and then stabbed it in its stomach! Its gastric juices surged up and corroded my skin , maybe because it was so painful, it spat me out again. And then, my skin was like this."

"After I swam up, my whole body was aching at first, and then I fainted. Before I passed out, I was thinking that I was going to die soon. I didn't expect that I would be able to wake up, and I didn't feel any pain in my body. Now! I thought that people who participated in this game were not so easy to die, but I didn't expect, I didn't expect..."

He glanced at the fish scale he threw away, then looked at Qin Yi: "Tell me, will I become a fish monster?!"

Although the light was dim, Qin Yi could clearly see the begging look in his eyes. It seemed that her answer would be his greatest hope for survival.

Qin Yi shook his head and said, "No, definitely not."

Hu Lai sat aside and asked, "When did you escape from the belly of the fish?"

Yin Ze thought about it for a while, "I met Wu Yu four days ago, we were looking for food for a day together, and he started at night. I jumped into the water and met a big fish. It was midnight, and when I escaped from the fish's stomach, It's getting a little brighter."

"In that case, it should have been at least three days ago." Hu Lai said, "Look, it's been three days, you're fine."

Qin Yi thought of a possibility and said, "This should indeed be the process of mutation, but maybe because you are a human, the mutation is much slower. It took three days for your back to grow so many scales. Maybe... can it be postponed until the day the task is completed?"

Although she used the word "maybe" in her words, Yin Ze instantly saw hope.

He nodded again and again and said, "Yeah, hasn't it been six days now! There are 24 days left, and I will definitely be able to get through it!"

Qin Yi also nodded, but secretly thought about the scale of the fish on his back.

24 days, calculated as 3 days, there are 8 three days.

It shouldn't be covered in scales all over the body, right?

However, no one knows whether this mutation is only for the body, or it also changes the mind. What if he lost his reason and became a murloc before he was covered in fish scales?

Qin Yi was thinking, and Hu Lai asked aside: "By the way, how did this mutation appear? If you are not careful, maybe even the two of us will be infected!"

After speaking, he changed his face and pointed to the wound on his arm: "This is the last time I was bitten by a fish monster!"

In order to save Duanhua that day, he blocked it with his arm. The wound was not serious at the time, and he didn't take it too seriously, but now it is different.

Just like in zombie movies, people bitten by zombies will be infected and turn into zombies!

With a pale face, Hu Lai hurriedly began to undress. "Help me see if I have fish scales on me!"

Qin Yi took the flashlight and pointed it at his exposed back.

It's clean, nothing foreign.

Qin Yi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Nothing, no infection."

Hu Lai sat down and bounced again: "No, I have to check the lower body!"

"..." Qin Yi covered his eyes and entered the bedroom.

Yin Ze looked at Hu Lai, blinked and said, "There should be no problem except for making me grow needles."

So, what is the source of infection?

The three sat in the living room, and while eating, let Yin Ze carefully recall everything he had touched and eaten.

It may be that everything that comes to mind has been said, and all of them have been rejected one by one. Until the meal is over, the three of them still have no clue.

After sitting for a while, Yin Ze said with an "ah", "By the way, when I was spit out by the fish, I almost suffocated, so I accidentally opened my mouth and took a big gulp in the water!"

The water outside is smelly, although I don't know why it smells, but definitely not drinkable.

And those fish are also species that live in water.

Qin Yi felt that there was a great possibility that the water was the source of infection.

However, do you get infected when you drink it, or when you touch the wound?

She turned her head and glanced at Hu Lai.

Hu Lai was drinking from a bottle of water, but he didn't notice Qin Yi's sight, nor did he think of the question Qin Yi was thinking--

After the huge human-faced monster appeared yesterday, she saw Hu Lai swimming over with her own eyes, and he had several wounds on his body.

If the wound will be infected when it comes into contact with water, then today is the first day for him, and it is normal that no fish scales grow.

But this is just a guess, maybe it will only be infected after drinking water?

Qin Yi suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, and did not dare to say these guesses.

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